05568cam a2200853Ka 4500 ocn654784117 OCoLC 20200709055220.0 m d cr un||||a|a|| 100810s2004 mau ob 001 0 eng d OCLCE eng pn OCLCE N$T YDXCP E7B OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCA OCLCQ EBLCP DEBSZ OCLCQ AZK LOA OCLCO OCLCA TOA OCLCO AGLDB MOR PIFAG ZCU MERUC OCLCQ OCLCA U3W BETBC STF WRM OCLCQ VTS COCUF NRAMU ICG VT2 OCLCQ OCLCA YOU TKN DKC OCLCQ YDX OCLCO JSTOR 438873204 646811700 764518281 889082200 923110147 961543746 962636276 9780674040694 (electronic bk.) 0674040694 (electronic bk.) 0674015347 (alk. paper) 9780674015340 (alk. paper) 9780674024076 282344 (N$T) (OCoLC)654784117 (OCoLC)438873204 (OCoLC)646811700 (OCoLC)764518281 (OCoLC)889082200 (OCoLC)923110147 (OCoLC)961543746 (OCoLC)962636276 22573/ctvjttbvb JSTOR e------ aw----- ff----- B187.R46 M37 2004 SOC 011000 bisacsh REL 033000 bisacsh REL 072000 bisacsh REL 070000 bisacsh 398/.41/0901 22 11.10 bcl MAIN Martin, Dale B., 1954- Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / Dale B. Martin. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004. 1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index. "Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E. With reference to the writings of philosophers, historians, and medical teachers he demonstrates that the concept of superstition was invented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular religious practices and beliefs, especially the belief that gods or other superhuman beings would harm people or cause disease. Tracing the social, political, and cultural influences that informed classical thinking about piety and superstition, nature and the divine, Inventing Superstition exposes the manipulation of the label of superstition in arguments between Greek and Roman intellectuals on the one hand and Christians on the other, and the purposeful alteration of the idea by Neoplatonic philosophers and the Christian apologists in late antiquity."--Jacket. Superstitious Christians -- Problems of definition -- Inventing Deisidaimonia: Theophrastus, religious etiquette, and theological optimism -- Dealing with disease: the Hippocratics and the divine -- Solidifying new sensibility: Plato and Aristotle on the optimal universe -- Diodorus Siculus and the failure of philosophy -- Cracks in the philosophical system: Plutarch and the philosophy of demons -- Galen on the necessity of nature and theology and teleology -- Roman superstitio and Roman power -- Celsus and the attack on Christianity -- Origen and the defense of Chrisianity -- The philosophers turn: philosophical daimons in late antiquity -- Turning the tables: Eusibius, the triumphy in Christianity, and the superstition of the Greeks -- Conclusion: the rist and fall of a grand optimal illusion. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Philosophy, Ancient. Philosophy and religion Greece. Philosophy and religion Rome. Superstition Religious aspects History To 1500. SOCIAL SCIENCE Folklore & Mythology. bisacsh Philosophy, Ancient. fast (OCoLC)fst01060860 Philosophy and religion. fast (OCoLC)fst01060826 Superstition Religious aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01139026 Greece. fast (OCoLC)fst01208380 Rome (Empire) fast (OCoLC)fst01204885 Aberglaube gnd Antike gnd Römisches Reich gnd Griechenland Altertum gnd Bijgeloof. gtt Godsdiensten. gtt Klassieke oudheid. gtt Vroege kerk. gtt RELIGION / History bisacsh To 1500 fast Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: Martin, Dale B., 1954- Inventing superstition. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004 (DLC) 2004047407 (OCoLC)54897343 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=282344 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=e000xna&AN=282344 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=282344 EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3300273 ebrary EBRY ebr10314283 EBSCOhost EBSC 282344 YBP Library Services YANK 3068549 92 N$T 49536 49536